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VARIETIES AND PLANTING.
Newer kinds of potatoes are intro-
duced every year, and many experi-
ments have been conducted at the sey-
eral stations with the view of discov.
ering remediés for diseases, modes
of planting characteristics of
and varieties, etc,
much valuable
sominated every year,
Government bulletins is was
that the best soil for potatoes
rich, saady loam, well drained
which abundantly supplied with
vegetable matter. Green manures
and fertilizers are consequently very
suitable for a crop. It better not
to grow potatoes on the same land
every year but alternate with
crops. Fertilizer should
to the previous crop, rather than on
the potato land. The preparation of
the land should be deep and thorough,
and the fertilizers consist of nitrate
of soda, sup:rphoapbate and sulphate
potash Planting depends on the
climate, but be done, if pos
sible, bring the period when
the average rainfall is ample On
mellow from three to five inches
deep Is best for 1E, ially
if the but on eailier
crops, or in
depth may be
fore I
ture has given
may be cut a
ing without inj
has iroved superior
in section The
seed end are e first to
ate hence are best for an early
The panting
bud rally great
from the stem butt
Expos
a4 warm p.ace
growth, but if contin
form |
yield may
It
into uniform
nite numbe
indiscriminat
or thr
for each pilec
seed
In one of the
is
is
be
of
should
$0 as to
sol!
p lant
dry,
that
Harrow
"He
up
£8 Dex
season is
bake, tne
be-
. ta
2018S
well
less
level cul
the best results. Seed
plant-
gland
that
oa
germin
the plants are as
days before
and New En
to
eyes
ew
ary,
sead
grown
the
crop
sped or
than
the
from
gen
en
er
|
i
ing routed
¥
fore plantin
sprout
off)
which
is better
ea ave
A COMFORTABLE COOP.
to provide sul
able with
brood
fous is the colle
for enclosing the mother hen
half barrel upright wi
staves on i it to al
to run out and boxes of num
:
erous Kindas,
quarters the hen
} Various
tion of contrivan
Empty
th alternate
and
8
8 ae
one low chicks
shaped ops and
devices are in use, Sometimes
the hea is | find any shelt that
can. A coop two feet square
two feet high in front, one and one
half feet the back with a single
pitch roof produces a safe and econ-
omical home mother hen asu
her little flo the coop
has a siatt
wit
ting A sh
be
of
other
she
ront of
or a frame
inch mesh wire
hinged at
ting
and during
fastened for
door
net.
top may
front
bad
covered
sere i the
provided the
$01 rote
at night
weather, may be
hading front coop when
To. sunshine is too If cats
hawks likely to disturd the ci
ens a connectin at oae or
Coop, high,
or jong,
wire net
and exc
3oth coop and yard-
rame should made of light lam-
ber 80 as to be readily moved to fresh
ground. They must be placed where
the chi can Keep dry under foot
An excellent plan place
coops for hens near togethen,
ting the chicks fatermingie from
first. —John M. Kester, in The Epit.
omist,
the coop
of the
hot or
yarc
one
six feet
with
bot
two
en
ting
ude
sides of the foot
wide and
closed and
will keep
their enemie
three
covered
the
HE
in alcks
he
Ya
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is to gaveral
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SHALLOW PLOWING
The finer the condition of the #ofl
the easier facilities allowed the
plants for feeding, and the greater the
feeding room the
of roots, which are essential
times of drought and lack
to say nothing of the vigorous growth
DEEP AND
the
the
i
give &
the
breeders
tion to
great deal of atten
charactepy of the ear and
grain, and these are Important points
But the breeding of any piant that
looks simply to the improvement of
a single feature of the plant can
never be successful as one that takes
the whole plant into consideration
In breeding corn one must know
what his particular section needs. Ii
he in the region of short AORAOT
and early frost, he must take earli
ness of plant into serious con
sideration, as well as {ts productive
If ha is in the South where he
vari
ation
and
is
the
Ness
ot ¥ of
only
its produ t
corn, he need give
‘ter of the
att
to tha charac plant
WVYeness
FIND CALVES NOW
People in buying a place will
one without a spring to keep
their milk in: they make no prep
aration for it he winter. It fre
Zes not as
the strippings
hot place
re
fuse
yet
int
or it happens:
and k¢
and churn in a
churn for two or three hours ai
g<t a white puffy
ter. They let the ¢
ing and wonder how I caa }
and mil
our cow
August
winter:
ep
mass they cal
hildren do the
ive
In the first
calf in J
is good
kK all winter.
finds
and ther
then
er
other
reparation
he crop
horse
more
thing
largely
’ the
fills
hard soil
and iz ann
of winter
of the
poor
The gull
due to
past, The
with water and
and a
nual en large
We need dees
to enable {it
the and
prevent
rmer
FARM NOTES
cting a good milker the ud
large and capa
not only be fleshy
broad and reach well
belo w
anil
water for
droughts
Pre
ri
crop
Tn
and
gressive Fi
ious
it
for
a | 3
should be
he
extent, and
the
a very considerable
on consequent profitableness of
flocks
Uusually it is not good economy to
turn the lied in the all
They will rarely the
rest they need from the work during
pastures
secures
son of its greater root surface
controversies regarding deep and shal:
low plowing would perhaps find an
soil and method of plowing were con-
sidered in exact relation to each other
There ia no feed that is more di
gestible than gluton food. but if too
is fed it makes soft butter
From two to four pounds a day may
be fed without fear of this
Wait until there is falr bite of grass
and then
give them two hours a day on pas
ture for a few days, with good clover
It is better to cut seed potatoes #
in
ing highly
clay soils,
were permitted
larger quantity of soll for food,
also to more easily procure moisture
from below as
tion of moisture by the soil.
highly advantagable especially
lishment of a greater mass of roots
near the surface while the porocity
of the soil and its light nature enable
the corn to go downward as easily as
may be desired,
BREEDING CORN.
Much has been sald and written of
late In regard to the improvement
of corn by selection of seed, and there
is mo doubt that by proper breeding
the corn can be greatly Increased in-
dependently of the improvement of
the soll. Rut both should go hand in
band. Most of the socalled corn
Sa
dry. It is also a good plan to ex.
few days before
Success or failure
season depends upon
nights now passing
Don't forget lime and gravel. Both
Are necessary in the poultry yard
Be sure of clean water for the
chicks and keep their roosting places
clean.
Feed coops are very necessary to
planting.
of the poultry
the days aad
When a polar bear is killed by an
Eskimo, #t Is customary to cut off the
animal's nose and throw it on the lee.
If he failed to do this, it is the popular
belief that he would have bad luck.
This is the reason why nearly all
the skins of polar bears are mutilated
at the point about the snout.
A Japanese private soldier is paid
70 cents a month; a major general is
nald $121 a month.
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“Don’t Marry Through Pity.”
By Beatrice Fairfax,
T has been sald, “Of all the paths that lead to a woman's love, pity's
the straightest” This may be true as regards maternal, platonic,
or protective but It Is in to the love a
woman feels for the man who Is to her the one man of all the
world.
Pity arouses all
love, aot* true respact
that is best in woman, tenderness, gentleness
sympathy; but I doubt if many women fall in love through »ity.
They geaerally fall -in love because they can't he.p themselves—because some
force stronger than they compels them
To really love a man a woman must
every way; when ashe pities him she at :
A woman sometimes marries a man through pity; persuade 8 hersell
loves him: that he needs her, aad that she can be of service to him
The love that many women feal I« their fiusbands is of materna
order. and of its kind it iz a very good love; but it is not the highest deep w1
love, the love which glorifies the whole earth simply because two people dwell
on it.
A certain ment of pity
the forerunner. With
half fierce protectiveness and w
Some women marry through pity and be
loved Marriages of this kind are as pi
must give as well as take
Pity is a beautiful quality,
slumber {8 a strange anomaly
Of course there are exceptions to every
to love, We hear of hospital nurse. falling
nursed through serious lliness Their
stirred, and they have grown to thelr patients
because it has taken and thrived in adverse
These is only one thing to marry fo. HE
pity for love. Do think because you rey for a
marry him and live happily with The very thing that
may be the stumbling block to your happiness
To pity a person is to acknowledge u certain
when the pity wears out it is quite likely that the love thal
wear out, too.—New York Journal! -
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Raising Squabs For Market.
By K.V.S
country
that he is st longer than she 12
once assumes the ading part
feoal
ghe
3 the
is the of love,
mingles in all love, but it rasuit :
love comes a passion of tenderness that is half
holly love
age thy ¥
LY ETOwWS
el
not real
ity, ais
Pi with being
and
love
onous,
are in
monot
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Fisyy,. }
and the woman in whose breast it does
06s occasion:
sn whom
rule, and
in
nity
pity
love with mi
and sympathy have
This is apt to
circumstan
Do not
man that
garous
lead
have k
love ove
es
mist
You
your
root the most .
ake
Can
pity
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from it
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amon
and
will
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woman who
3
nothing 30 good and easy
good
Biraw
box, an
salt
estimated
as they
a dozen
Western America
vs. Eastern Asia.
By H. W, fcott.
developmen oth in He ICRA ang In
«ffecting great
toa do a esr est ang y
aac i : 31 : an i
Sam on the
than fifty
and Washis i
steamers and sails
ish Columbia and ports
movement. It fuscia 14
on the atest of o
by railway acre America’ to
from West lo East over the Atlant
Everytl favors the growth
There is development
which, within
active ‘hegtre
America The
except across the Atlantic,
Pacific, waich o effe
additional factor, in the commerce of
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The Necessity for
Content in Work.
By President Charles W. Eliot.
HE winning of satisfaction and content fa dally work is the most
fundamental of all objects for an industrial democracy. Unless
nt can be habitually won on an immense
this satisfaction and cont:
scale, the hopes and ideals of democracy cannot be realized
Therefore, joy in work should be (he all-pervading subject of the
industrial discussion; for it is at once motive, guide, and goal
It is only in the less skiifull employments of mankind, which
are also the commonest that any question arises concerning the possibility
of satisfaction and content ia dally work Ail the nobler employments give
much pleasure. Every professional man, every business man, and, indeed
every person in whose occupation there is free competitive play for
and judgment, takes pleasure, or joy, or satisfaction in his daily work;
interest in his work does
Pa in
wing fleet Bet
New Zealand
al mmerce betwe
eans, b arries also 8 heavy
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only 1 To
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border
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an
commerce to
ernaliona; ¢
rival that on
8 now
vOrY large
mmer
mng
promise
the
of
proportions
Pacific
the Atlanti For the
Asia and western
ore RCATCe at all In communication
diy veloping an intercourse over
rmation. or at least to become a great
the world. —The Century.
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next half-
entury
the world's ort eastern
two hemispt ETON, roto? #
are now rapi
large tranafo
the
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and his
not depend principaily on the amount of pay he
receives for it. He gets from it a large satisfaction independent of snd in
addition to, its pecuniary returas. Tie rial question, then, is whether the
satisfactions of the higher employments can be measurably obtained In the
lower. On the right solution of this problem depends the whole future of the
induatrial democracy; for there can be no public happiness without content
and Satisfaction from t the daily \ work : of the masses of mankind. —World's Work
bie i a ——
“he Claims of the Individual. A Wonderful Jewel,
The most extraordinary pearl—or
rather clusters of pearls—known as
“The Southern Cross,” ls owned by
a syndicate of Australian gentlemen,
who value it at $500,000, So far as is
known it occupies an absolute po.
sition. It consists of nine pearls, na.
turally grown together in so regular
& manner as to form a perfect Latin
cross. The pearl was discovered by
a pearlfisher at Roebourne, West
Australia. The first owner regarded
it with so much superstition that he
buried it; but it was discovered in
1874, and five years later waw placed
on exhibition a Australia. —~Detrol’
News Tribune,
————————
It 1s one of the confusing elements
of madern society that anarchism, so.
cialism, science, and free thought are
producing heroes and martyrs to set
beside those of the definitely relig
fous sects. There is apparently no
school of thought or ethics with a
monopoly of holiness. Bomewhere in
the mean of all these conflicting theo-
ries lies the germ of truth fitted for
mortal understanding, but mean time
individualism is unquestionably safe
in its assertion that no society, no
oragnization, no consolidation what:
soever 1s nobler than the Individuals
that compose it, and that the devel.
opment of the individual, pot by the
stunting processes of fear, but by the | Perignon, the butler of a monas
strengthening processes of freedom, ' tery near Epernay, in France, is sald
is the first duty of man-—Harper's to have first made champagne success
Weekly. | tully tn 1643,
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Have Traded Mis.
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania was
in autographs,
Often, though, he
naturedly, collectors
also
good
He was showing a reporter his In
The young map
“This dagger must be very old,” he
“Has it a history?’
“It has indeed,” sald Senator Quay
is the dagger that Macbeth
he saw, descendant of
A
Senator Quay smiled, “There le
“Karr, in one of his stories, had
“ ‘Presented to Alphonse Karr—by
cmp
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